κεφαλή
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *kʰepʰəlā́, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ-l̥ (“head”) + *-éh₂ (“nominal suffix”).[1] Compare κεβλή (keblḗ). False cognate of Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ke.pʰa.lɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ke.pʰaˈle̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ce.ɸaˈli/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ce.faˈli/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ce.faˈli/
Noun
κεφᾰλή • (kephalḗ) f (genitive κεφᾰλῆς); first declension
- head
- a person's life (often in the sense of being in danger, similar to the English idiom "head is on the line").
- the topmost part
- the most important part
- (Byzantine) a provincial governor
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ κεφᾰλή hē kephalḗ |
τὼ κεφᾰλᾱ́ tṑ kephalā́ |
αἱ κεφᾰλαί hai kephalaí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς κεφᾰλῆς tês kephalês |
τοῖν κεφᾰλαῖν toîn kephalaîn |
τῶν κεφᾰλῶν tôn kephalôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ κεφᾰλῇ têi kephalêi |
τοῖν κεφᾰλαῖν toîn kephalaîn |
ταῖς κεφᾰλαῖς taîs kephalaîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν κεφᾰλήν tḕn kephalḗn |
τὼ κεφᾰλᾱ́ tṑ kephalā́ |
τᾱ̀ς κεφᾰλᾱ́ς tā̀s kephalā́s | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κεφᾰλή kephalḗ |
κεφᾰλᾱ́ kephalā́ |
κεφᾰλαί kephalaí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀκέφαλος (aképhalos)
- ἀμφικέφαλος (amphiképhalos)
- ἀποκεφαλίζω (apokephalízō)
- κεφαλῖνος (kephalînos)
- κεφάλιον (kephálion)
Descendants
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κεφαλή”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 682-3
Further reading
- “κεφαλή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κεφαλή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κεφαλή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κεφαλή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- κεφαλή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G2776 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- κεφαλή in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- head idem, page 389.
Greek
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ). Doublet of κεφάλι (kefáli), inherited from a diminutive form.
Pronunciation
Noun
κεφαλή • (kefalí) f (plural κεφαλές)
Declension
Declension of κεφαλή
Further reading
- κεφαλή, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language